In an extraordinary period before the first non-racial elections in South Africa, Vera Stark, a lawyer representing blacks' struggle to reclaim the land, weaves an interpretation of her own past into her participation in the present. The return of exiles and liberation leaders, including her friends Didymus and Sibongile Maqoma, is transforming the city. All must change: the reader experiences the strange passions and danger that accompany new-won power.
